"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

"Media Helped Tip The Scales In 2008"

This is probably why ABC will never give Jake Tapper the host gig on "This Week."

In an interview on Tuesday with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, ABC News’ White House correspondent Jake Tapper addressed
many of the concerns that Republicans have with the media. Tapper said
that he was concerned that key issues, like the economy, were being
ignored in favor of political issues like Mitt Romney’s
tax returns. Tapper said that he hopes the media does not unfairly
cover this election and favor one candidate over another, as he says the
institution did in 2008.

Ingraham asked Tapper if he was happy with the substance of political
media coverage thus far. Tapper replied that he was not, saying that
the state of the nation’s economy and the high unemployment rate are
voters’ paramount concerns and that he would like to see “more action
taken and more emphasis given to this issue.”

About Me

I was born in Tombstone, Arizona, but moved to California in 1959 when labor strikes at the copper mines devastated the Arizona economy. I've been moving north ever since. Pullman is as far north as I care to live and I'm looking toward reversing the drift.